{"id":321957,"date":"2025-11-24T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-force-largest-f-35-fleet-world\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:00:14","slug":"this-air-force-has-the-largest-f-35-fleet-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=321957","title":{"rendered":"This Air Force Has The Largest F-35 Fleet In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> is by far the largest operator of the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, and it isn&#8217;t even close. If the term &#8216;air force&#8217; is to include naval air arms, then the second largest is the Marine Corps, followed by the US Navy. The United States Army does not operate the F-35 or any fixed-wing combat aircraft. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034681\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-roles-us-military-helicopters-modern-combat\/\" >The Army has the world&#8217;s largest helicopter air force<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Air Force has over 40% of the world&#8217;s delivered F-35s and is set to remain the largest operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,748,628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321958,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321957\/revisions\/321958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}